This is an exciting time to join Waltham Forest – London’s first Borough of Culture. We are busy creating a Council for the future and this is your chance to join an ambitious, customer focussed Digital team during a time of change and transformation.

Waltham Forest is east London’s cultural hotspot and one of the greenest and fastest growing areas in the capital. With fantastic connectivity, huge investment potential and limitless ambition we are fast becoming well known for economic growth and regeneration

Over the past few years Waltham Forest has changed drastically as a place. Good schools, great parks, excellent culture facilities, mass regeneration and budding community entrepreneurial ship are making us a place that people want to call home. Our ambition is that everybody in Waltham Forest enjoys a quality life.

Job Purpose

At Waltham Forest we are 100% committed to providing our residents and local businesses with seamless, intuitive digital customer experiences. As one of the most creative boroughs in London we are focussed on transforming the way our residents connect with the world around them, and with us.

So we need to make sure the Waltham Forest digital experience is the very best it can be. And that means supporting services and people in a culture that puts customers first.

As the Digital Support Officer you will be responsible for providing second line technical support for more than 150 interactive digital services built on the Firmstep platform. You will be a problem solver by nature and enjoy ‘getting under the hood’ to assist the Digital product team, development team and council services to identify potential root causes for technical issues and provide recommendations on how to remedy these, always with the customer experience in mind.

Experienced of working in an agile environment you will use your digital service knowledge and expertise to support the prioritisation and optimisation of digital products, providing key insight into how customers and council staff are interacting with our digital services both in the front and back end. You will also work closely with the Digital Development team, taking part in development activities as required.

If you have energy and passion, and believe in our vision of delivering amazing digital services that will help change people’s lives then this job is for you.